Cain Velasquez will be watching UFC 156 on Saturday night with great interest when heavyweights Alistair Overeem and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva step in the cage.

Velasquez (11-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC), the UFC’s heavyweight champ once again after a dominating win over Junior Dos Santos at UFC 155 in December, is likely to face Overeem (36-11 MMA, 1-0 UFC) if he wins. As for Silva (17-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC), the same may not be true.

To get his shot at Dos Santos, Velasquez had to go through Silva, himself, at UFC 146 this past May. And he did so in devastating fashion with a first-round TKO.

A rematch with Silva should he pull the upset, in most opinions, doesn’t make much sense given Velasquez’s win over him less than a year ago. And Velasquez agrees.

But he sees Overeem winning the fight, which takes place on the main card and airs on pay-per-view from Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

“I think he’ll win,” Velasquez told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I think Bigfoot’s a tough dude, also, but Overeem definitely has a great chance. He’s been one of the top guys in this sport forever now. He’s a big, strong guy with a lot of power. He definitely has a good chance.”

And if Silva pulls the upset? Then Velasquez believes he may go into a little limbo. Fighters like Roy Nelson and Stefan Struve may not be at the top of the ladder, but they’re not far off, either.

Could a fighter like that be plucked to move up and face the champion should Overeem get upset and fall back into the pack?

“I don’t know (what happens if he doesn’t win),” Velasquez said. “Maybe (Nelson or Struve). We’ll see what the UFC decides and see what happens with this fight. I really haven’t thought about who it will be if Overeem doesn’t win. The UFC hasn’t said anything, either. But he’s definitely one of the best.”

Velasquez was one of the best, as well, as champion. And then Dos Santos stopped him in 64 seconds at UFC on FOX 1 to win the belt.

For Velasquez to get such a big measure of revenge at UFC 155 was a bit of a liberating experience. He even said the spirit in his camp at American Kickboxing Academy was way down after his loss. So to recapture the belt had perhaps an even bigger meaning.

“It felt good, not just to beat him (but to avenge a loss),” he said. “At that time, Junior seemed unbeatable – takedown defense, his standup and boxing. All that stuff. It was definitely rewarding. It was great.

“Just losing that fight with Junior, the first one, and knowing the circumstances and everything with it left a damper on me. I wanted to come back and just win that fight. It made me angry, all the people around me, that fell apart with that loss. There’s nothing you can really do except move forward. Some of the coaching staff kind of blamed each other, and it was a big controversy in the gym, whereas I was, ‘Hey, man, it was me that lost that fight – you guys didn’t lose the fight.’ Just drop it, let’s move forward, let’s move ahead. They took it harder than I did. I just wanted to keep moving forward.”

And move forward he did with the biggest and most dominant win of his career. Now he likely awaits Overeem. And if that doesn’t happen, he’ll take whoever comes next.

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